dismissing the appeal from the Provincial Court at Peking in the ease in' which E. Mf. Maille, a French citi#en, obtained judgment! for "$1,605 againt Miss " Mildred 'Thornhill, trading as the Peking Supply Go, for moneys paid by plaintiff as' a guarantor, Judge Sir Skinner Turner, at H. Mf. Supreme Court on Thursday, commented eaus-tically on respondents' plea that the company was an American concern.
Respondents, as litigants in a former case in 1923, the Judge pointed out, found it suited them to be British. "But, the boot is now on the other leg," his Lordship continued. "The Peking Supply Ca. finds itsd?
defendant and likely to onder for payment made against it. All is well: the very same docu ment which was used in 1928. to show the British character of the! that the concern was British snd that Miss Thornhill was lible. This ig the real point before me and the position is, to say the Toast of it, curious.
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